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Written by Justin Clarke Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:00
With the World Endurance Championship season opening race at Sebring on 17th March now only 8 weeks away, the teams are starting to finalise their plans.
JRM Motorsports drive line confirmed
British based JRM Motorsports, the latest team to announce they are entering an LMP1 car in the 2012 World Endurance Championship, have now confirmed their driver line up will be David Brabham, Peter Dumbreck and Karun Chandhok.
David Brabham drove a HPD ARX03 to second place in Sebring in 2010, won Le Mans in 2009 with Peugeot and won the American Le Mans Series prototype championship in 2009 and 2010. David most recently drove for JRM in the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2011.
Karun Chandhok has most recently been driving in F1, firstly for Hispania Racing in 2010, switching to Lotus in 2011. Prior to F1 drove in F3, A1GP and Formula Renault before moving to GP2 in 2007.
Peter Dumbreck also started his career in single seaters, switched to DTM for five years and then headed for Japan and the Japan Super GT series. Most recently he drove for JRM in the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2010 and 2011.
Krohn Racing
Old Speed Chills friends Krohn Racing, have confirmed they intend to compete in all eight WEC races in 2012. The team will be competing in a Ferrari F458 GTE, replacing the F430 that took them to second in the GTE-Am class in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Series.
Morgan Motor Company and OAK Racing join forces in endurance racing
Morgan Motor Company and OAK Racing are delighted to announce that they have entered into a partnership that will see the new 2012 OAK-Pescarolo LMP2 cars compete as Morgan LMP2s. It will be manufactured by Onroak Automotive, OAK Racing’s constructor department, which is based at the Technoparc des 24 Heures in Le Mans.
OAK Racing will enter one Morgan LMP2 in this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship where they will seek to emulate the achievement of the Morgan Super Sport that took class victory at the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hours. 2012 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of their success and the company will seek to celebrate this landmark in style.
